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Author | : Mark Edward Smith |
Publisher | : Watson-Guptill |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1998-06-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780823032327 |
For thousands of artists lacking access to figure classes with live models, this portfolio of superbly photographed models provides a life-drawing studio right at home. An extensive compilation of traditional life drawing poses includes female and male figures in standing, seated, reclining, and action poses, each shown gracefully in circular movement, taking in all views: front, three-quarter-front, side, three-quarter back, and back. Each photograph is beautifully composed and lit, providing artists with all the nuances of muscle structure, line, and gesture to inspire fully developed figure drawings and paintings.
Author | : Paul Moore |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2012-12-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781481222815 |
Approximately 60 pages with 55 sepia toned images. This work is ENTIRELY pictorial. Contains artistic nudity - For ADULTS ONLY This work is a study of the female nude in a classical form. It is ideal for those wishing to expand their knowledge of an artistic presentation of the female nude. For those who are interested in such things, all the images in this book were created with a Mamiya RB67 camera and 50, 90, and 127MM lenses. All images were shot using Ilford Delta iso 3200 film to enhance the grain and precessed in D-76 developer. The author began photography and photo-journalism in early 1963 when he accepted an offer from his local newspaper to write about and photograph sports events at the Arizona high school where he was a junior. After a stint in the service, he had an opportunity to study photography and printing techniques with Bernard Hoffman, a true gentleman and scholar, and one of the earliest staff photographers for Life Magazine. Since that time he has had thousands of photographs and hundreds of articles published by more than 60 national and international periodicals. He was also a contributing editor for one of them for more than ten years. Topics ran the gamut from professional sports, medicine, archeology, and photography to science. After twenty years away from Arizona he returned in 1985 and it has been the base from which all his photographic excursions are launched. Along with many others he has embraced digital photography but can still be seen, from time to time, peering through the ground glass of a large format camera, hoisting a large medium format 6x7, or indeed still using a 35mm film camera. The photographer currently has fine art photography on exhibit at The Center for Fine Arts in Globe, Arizona, and is currently represented by more than ten stock photo agencies where he has more than 13,000 photographs available for commercial use.
Author | : Mark Edward Smith |
Publisher | : Watson-Guptill |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-10-02 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0823099911 |
More than two hundred full-color photos of women in motion and at rest Standing. Seated. Reclining. Kneeling. Bending. Crouching. Running. World-renowned photographer Mark Edward Smith has captured women of every age and form in every type of movement, then gathered his striking, unusual images into The Nude Female Figure. An indispensable reference for artists who have limited access to live figure models, this remarkable book features striking images of shapely young women as well as elegiac photos of more mature women. The models in these full-color pictures include women of every type—slender women, not-so-slender women, pregnant women, and women of color. A special section shows closeups of the hands and feet. Each pose is beautiful, and the unparalleled attention to composition, lighting, and reproduction make it easy for artists to see the relationships between the parts of the body and to study the classic female figure. • A must-have reference for all artists • Beautiful composition and lighting by a world-renowned photographer and best-selling author—125,000 books sold • All in color for the first time—at same great price as The Nude Figure
Author | : Thomas Kren |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2018-11-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 160606584X |
A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.
Author | : Jim Silke |
Publisher | : Dark Horse Comics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-06-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 159582409X |
In the world of contemporary pin-up art, few artists can capture the sexy essence of a gorgeous woman as well and as wonderfully as Jim Silke. For years Silke's signature luscious paintings and sensuous drawings have delighted the hearts and eyes of everyone who appreciates the beauty and grace of the female form, as portrayed in his other bestselling art books, including Bettie Page, Queen of Hearts and Pin-Up: The Illegitimate Art. This time, the pin-up master strips his subjects of dress and other distractions to better reveal the delicious details that are usually hidden from admiring eyes. And, as fans have come to expect from the gentleman genius behind the brush, Silke adorns his intoxicating imagery with sage insight and cunning wit, as he recounts his long and exceedingly happy career flirting with fine art and foxy women.
Author | : Vicki Goldberg |
Publisher | : Abradale Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2000-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
The human form has inspired some of the finest sculpture in art history. It also evokes in the viewer complex reactions. Looking at magnificent nude sculptures by Michelangelo, Rodin, Henry Moore, and other great artists, we are in awe of the beauty and power of the art, as well as of the nude figure. But we may also experience other emotions, perhaps uncomfortably close to those we feel when we see an unclothed human body. This astonishing work provides a visual survey of nude sculpture throughout the ages, enhanced by an illuminating essay by noted critic Vicki Goldberg probing our various responses to this most realistic art form.While photographs distance us from the art works they depict, they also offer close-up details that permit us to see nude sculptures in new and surprising ways. Photographer David Finn, who has expanded the way we look at art in Abrams' How-to-Look-at titles, enables us -- through his remarkable photographs -- to glimpse the sculptor's creative process as well as the qualities of presence, texture, and detail that give the finest sculpture its grace and majesty.
Author | : George T. M. Shackelford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Nude in art |
ISBN | : 9780500093627 |
The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. Degas and the Nude is the first book in a generation to explore the artist's treatment of the nude from his early years in the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s, all the way to his last decades, when the theme dominated his artistic production in all media. With essays by leading critics, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of Degas's evolving conception of the nude and to situate it in the subject's broader context among his peers in 19th-century France. Among the scores of reproductions is one of the most important of Degas's early paintings, Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which exerted a lifelong influence on the artist's treatment of the female nude and includes poses poses repeated throughout his career. Also included are monotypes of the late 1870s, which illustrate Degas's most explicitly sexual depictions of women in Parisian brothels, and pictures portraying the daily life of women wherever they resided. Together these iterations range over more than a half-century of virtuoso achievement and manifest a groundbreaking look at the evolution of this master artist.
Author | : Giovanni Civardi |
Publisher | : Cassell Illustrated |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780289800904 |
“To paint, draw, or sculpt the human figure is one of the most demanding of artistic problems.... Explores the artistic possibilities and particular problems of female bodies.”—Library Journal.
Author | : Paul Moore |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2013-09-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781492393214 |
The book contains artistic nudity and is 164 pages long and contains more than 150 full page color and monochrome images. I have always had considerable admiration for the great Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. Regardless of the opinions of others he continued with his photographic work despite enormous pressure (and penalty) from the outside world. His vision had been, and still is, unique even though little understood. This work is neither imitative or derived from my admiration of this unique individual. It is merely my vision of what I like to do; and that is simply to continue creating images regardless of the subject matter and regardless of the many positive and negative reviews thus far received from my many published works. It should be understood that this is a photographic work and is a visual presentation. Explanations and written interpretations are non-existent. The viewer is invited, and indeed, expected to form their own opinion either positive or negative. It is hoped that each image will be thoughtfully examined.
Author | : Diana Constance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Anatomy, Artistic |
ISBN | : 9781861554611 |